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Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and cot

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. – Lysander Spooner

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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. – Confucius

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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

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A government of laws, and not of men. – John Adams

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